The term Big Hairy Audacious Goal (“BHAG”, pronounced BEE-hag) was proposed by James Collins and Jerry Porras in their 1994 book entitled Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. A BHAG should be clear compelling have a clear finish … Continue reading
I got an e-mail today about one of my tactics problems from one of my newsletter readers. Here is the position in question with Black to Move: See if you can find the best move for black. The question I … Continue reading
Here is a sample of one of my newsletters, with a really cool game in it. If you haven’t signed up yet for my newsletters, I think that you will really enjoy them! Newsletter Issue # 28 Tactics Time Quaade … Continue reading
I am currently looking for people who are interested in writing a special guest Tactics Time Newsletter! I already received one, and it turned out great, and would love to see more! The format is pretty simple Headline Quote Tactic … Continue reading
Here is a video that Jennifer Shahade posted for the “Xtreme Chess Champs” show It is kind of amusing. Seems like there is a wide range of playing ability with the contestants. One player was hanging pieces, while another was … Continue reading
I get a lot of hits on my blog for people doing a search for “Fritz 13 Review“, so I decided to actually do one I use Fritz 13 a lot, and would certainly recommend it. The Let’s check feature … Continue reading
Regarding some of the newsletter problems being “too easy”. One reader (who has been rated over 2000 USCF) writes: I just wanted to make a comment about the “too easy” sentiment of some players. Please don’t think that it’s just … Continue reading
I got some interesting e-mails lately from some of my newsletter readers. Instead of copy and pasting the whole e-mails and my responses, here are some of the snippets that you might find interesting… Regarding the classification of chess tactics, … Continue reading
This is a very nice chess tactic that Jennifer Shahade posted on her twitter feed. I highly recommend following her on Twitter. She writes a lot of great articles for USCF as well. White to play, answer below. Don’t look … Continue reading
Dean Brown has been reading my Tactics Time newsletter for a few months now, which is like injecting gorilla juicehead mental chess steroids into your brain! When a chess player subscribes to my newsletter their tactical skill set after a … Continue reading
I have had a couple people send me e-mails, and talk about the idea about organizing tactics. I never really got too into trying to organize them myself. It seems like whenever humans try to organize things, there are always … Continue reading
From Life Master Joel Johnson Hi All, Matthew Miller has moved to 65th place in the United States among 14 year olds with his 1901 USCF Rating as of the December Rating List. Congrats!! Matthew started playing USCF rated chess … Continue reading